If Kerry Talking Points Were Kewpie Dolls

The Bush tax cuts (which Congress just voted to extend) are an affront to the most fundamental principles of fairness. They are skewed in favor of those who already pay less than their rightful share of taxes and shift the burden even farther onto the shoulders of the most overtaxed. In other words, the Bush tax cuts are unfair to the rich.

I know there’s a lot of hype to the contrary, but look at the numbers. If you and your spouse have a taxable income of $60,000 a year, you’ve had almost a 24 percent income tax cut since President Bush took office. (And ditto if your income was just $20,000.) Meanwhile, the folks who make $350,000 a year got a cut of only about 12.5 percent; those who make $1 million a year got an even smaller cut.

John… call your office, the “tax cuts for the rich” meme ain’t working no more.

I find it appropriate that on the day Kerry’s tax cut meme lays a fat goose egg, the Baroque Candidate is pandering to the NRA/Conservative voters by hunting for geese in Ohio:

Kerry returned after a two-hour hunting trip wearing a camouflage jacket and carrying a 12-gauge shotgun, but someone else carried the bird he said he shot.

“I’m too lazy,” Kerry joked. “I’m still giddy over the Red Sox. It was hard to focus.”

The Massachusetts senator was referring to Boston’s American League championship Wednesday night. He stayed up late cheering his hometown team onto victory, then got up for a 7 a.m. hunting trip at a supporter’s produce farm.

Kerry adviser Mike McCurry said it’s important in the final days of the campaign that voters “get a better sense of John Kerry, the guy.”

Somebody needs to remind “the guy” that irregardless of how “lazy” you may be, a 3-4 pound dead goose isn’t the most taxing [pun intended] endeavor one can be called upon to perform. In fact the 12 gauge probably weighed more than the goose!

And why did he wait til after the Red Sox clinched the ALCS to get “giddy over the Red Sox?” I don’t recall hearing anything til now, must be that pre-emption thing, he can’t make a move until after the fact. Being “giddy” could also explain why he called Red Sox All-Star David Ortiz “Manny” and named Eddie Yost as his favorite Red Sox player although Eddie never played in Beantown, he was a Washington Senator.

UPDATE: double “L” Michelle has the photos of the Great White hunter, Kerry.